• Omegle – start a chat with a stranger
• Gallery of great photos put together from different shots by Danish artist Peter Funch
• Study says pirates are the best music buyers and 86% would pay for legal P2P
• Nielsen says global consumer confidence is in the toilet
• How to use help elements in your designs
• A Land Rover Defender even protects you from lions if you got a flat
• TechCrunch has the mobile ad market share stats
• Epic For Sale car ad Fail
• Forrester predicts big growth in social media marketing and has the five eras of the social web
• Last but not least if you’re tired of being an Apple fanboy you can now turn into a Windows brand ambassador

Samsung’s challenge to you:

Guess how we did this. This clip was shot on an I8910 HD phone, a new camera phone just released by Samsung with an 8 megapixel camera that can actually record and output video in HD format. It was shot in one take, with no post production or special effects of any kind. Everything you see here was done “in-camera”. Our challenge to you is to figure out how we did it. Hint: it’s worth watching in HD…

The making of will be released in a couple of weeks.

Update: And here’s the making of:

• A round-up by Gary Hayes on engaging community with film, either UGC or supplying them with footage to play with
• Polarising post by Professor Eric Clemons on TC on why advertising is failing on the internet
• Help for advertisers with the Make My Logo Bigger Cream is a nice piece of viral self-branding by some agency, while Fallon created Skimmer, an Adobe AIR desktop app to help users participate in social networks
• Stig (puppet) spottet by Google’s street view camera at the Top Gear office
• Fantastic pictures of dog sledding at boston.com
• Help to stop the Canadian seal slaughter by signing the PETA petition on FB
• Good list of prototyping tools on Adaptive Path
• WWF on Twitter and Flickr
• Dan Power’s energy wasting site, a campaign by climate change site together.com
• Nissan’s Slamdunk competition on YouTube for their 370Z
• iStopOver.com, B&B accomodation portal all without middlemen
• After the pink dolphin we now have a pink elephant caught on camera
• Leaked photos of Tesla’s Model S
• Fast & Furious movie model competition
• The Grain Foods Foundation wants to end hunger in the US with The Bread Art Project
• HIV T cells transmission captured on video
• Visa’s Go UGC campaign
• Last but not least 84% of German twentysomethings would rather give up their car or partner than their internet connection

• First off above one of the many incredible photos, taken underwater in a white box, of nudibranches by David Doubilet
• Gizmodo has an iPhone 3.0 guide and they also found some horrifying vintage army medical photos on Flickr
• Bloody Balinese Government is killing off their street dogs with poison to fight an outbreak of rabies – sign WSPA’s petition now
• Smashing Magazine has a list of 99 Twitter tools and applications, and Mashable finds that everyone’s favourite thing at the moment is now growing at 1382% – on that note you gotta admire the new buzz word Statussphere
• The pope is just ridiculous, telling Africans that condoms won’t help against AIDS
• boston.com has pretty big pictures of the Pirates of Somalia
• A feed to subscribe to: Information Aesthetics
• 94% of Facebook users hate the new layout (will there be another poll that lets users decide what next?)
• Last but not least Cisco pushes into the consumer space by acquiring Flip camera maker PureDigital

• Shoot, stich and share panorama pictures with CleVR
• Instant cash with the Google AdSense generator
• Agency peoples: Submit a killed idea and be featured in vol. 1 (courtesy of Trevo)
• Micro Persuasion sees three ways media is innovating
• Ryanair slams ‘idiot’ blogger and soon will charge for using the toilet
• Talking about toilets:GM slashes marketing budget by 800m, the outlook for PR firms and digital agencies is not good either, same with PC sales
• Lego has the coolest business cards ever
• TechnoBox, the virtual techno studio for your iPhone
• Turn your WordPress site into an iPhone webapp with WPtouch
• 10 open source alternatives to Photoshop
• Momentile, another photo-a-day sharing service
• Mashable on how to measure online influence
• GE Smart Grid microsite
• Monitter, real-time live Twitter monitoring
• Easily test your creation with the browser sandbox Xenocode
• Pictures of the stunning Porsche museum
• Last but not least another Top 100 Australian Marketing Blogs list with ETTF.NET on No. 5! (and I don’t actually reside in Oz anymore)

An inspiring movie shot by photographer Zack Arias for Scott Kelby.

• More than 82 million people in the US created content online in 2008 and social networking attracts 75% of online Europeans
• Mashable analyses why big brands struggle with social media and Search Engine Land rounds up the results you can get
• How to become an iPhone developer in eight easy steps and Mashable’s got a guide on how to build one (courtesy of Dunc)
• Turn your crappy 2MP iPhone camera into a 4MP unit with Occipital’s ClearCam (but you’ll wait some time for the image to process)
• Wired post on the advances of scientists that make even smaller electronics possible as for example a TB on a chip the size of a coin
• Micro Persuasion summarises 5 digital trends to watch for 2009 from Edelman’s whitepaper
• BannerBlog is not impressed with this year’s online execution of Aussie short film festival TropFest
• The poor New Zealanders can breathe for another month whilst the terrible file sharing law has been delayed
• TechCrunch looks at Microsoft’s social media desktop prototype
• Playboy UK relaunches as free access website but apparently have never heard of RSS
• Pinch Media shows that the average shelf life of an iPhone app is less than 30 days (TC)
• Last but not least the Oscars happened overnight and I’m disappointed that they didn’t give one to Mickey Rourke as The Wrestler was an epic performance